AFTER TASTE
Enlivened by a delightfully supple and melodically rich score by musical director Patrick Sinozich, After Taste charts the rise and fall of a killer craze–a nouvelle-cuisine item called Fatal Food: eat three cans and you’re free of all earthly sorrow. Its inventor is a slimy opportunist named Harvey Lygea (Bob Fisher); this wacko entrepreneur regularly confesses to a pet peanut and cynically believes that “People get what they want.” And why defy a death wish you can profit from?
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The wiliest troupe since the Illegitimate Players in Of Grapes and Nuts, Hollmann’s yuksters make the audience shake like San Francisco. Bob Fisher’s hustler Lygea is creepy enough to seem ripe for committal, Lortie’s gumshoe reporter reinvents The Front Page stereotypes, and Kotis’s stiff-necked, venal editor could easily attract Rupert Murdoch.
